Voting Methods
Fairness Criteria
Preference Schedule
WildCard
100
The candidate with the most votes should win.
What is Plurality?
100
When the winner does not have over 50% of the votes.
What is majority?
100
Rank the candidates in order using the plurality method.
A
B
C
E
D
100
The world famous name of the Mechanicsville High School mascot.
MAXIMUS!
200
This method allows for each candidate to be paired together. The winner is whoever has the most head to head wins.
What is Pairwise Comparison? (or Pairwise)
200
If a voter drops out of an election, and the original winner does not win the re-election.
What is the Irrelevant Alternatives criteria?
200
Rank the candidates using the Borda Count method.
D
C
E
B
A
200
This historic club was victorious, as champion of the 2025 Europa League.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
300
In this voting method, each election place is given a point value. Each vote counts for as many points as the category is worth. The winner is decided by the largest amount of total points.
What is Borda Count?
300
During an election, voters change their mind forcing a re-election. In the re-election, the original winner, does not win.
What is the Montonicity criteria?
300
Rank the candidates using Pairwise Comparison.
C, D, and E
B
A
300
This president is famous for the Emancipation Proclamation and reuniting the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
400
The winner is decided by first place votes, however there are rounds. In each round only first place votes are counted, and the lowest vote earner is eliminated.
What is IRV (Plurality w/ Elimination)?
400
The plurality winner loses a head to head matchup against 1 or more candidates.
What is the condorcet criteria?
400
Who should win using IRV? Rank them order 1 - 5.
C
A
B
E
D
400
This is the capital of Vietnam.
Hanoi
500
True or False: The 4 Voting methods are Plurality, Borda Count, IRV and Elimination?
What is false. (Plurality, Borda, IRV, and Pairwise)
500
Sarah is running for class president and during the election Abigail decides to add herself into the running. Sarah won originally, but now Abigail wins. Sarah claims this violates a fairness criteria, is she correct?
No, Irrelevant Alternatives can only be violated by candidates dropping out or being removed from an election.
500
True or False: A preference schedule is a collection of preference ballots, that electors use to rank each candidate in order of first to last.
True
500
This is the atomic number for gold.
79